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Environmental Building News Makes the Case for Green

Environmental Building News Makes the Case for Green

Brattleboro, VT--BuildingGreen, Inc., Publisher of Environmental Building News (EBN) and the GreenSpec directory of green building products, has recently published "Making the Case for Green Building" in Environmental Building News. This latest feature from EBN is available for free in the BuildingGreen Suite of online resources.

While the BuildingGreen Suite is a subscription-based online resource, the company occasionally makes articles available for public use. "We considered this article so important and so broadly relevant," said EBN Editor Nadav Malin, "that we decided to make it available to anyone."

"Making the Case for Green Building" reviews the wide-ranging benefits of green building. Forty-six benefits are described in seven categories: first-cost savings; reduced operating costs, other economic benefits, health and productivity benefits, community benefits, environmental benefits, and social benefits. These diverse benefits--which do not all apply to every project--include reduced infrastructure costs, lower energy costs, reduced costs of churn, more rapid lease-out, positive public image, reduced employee turnover, improved health, reduced automobile use and traffic congestion, reduced toxic emissions, protection of biodiversity, and support of sustainable economies.

The full article can be read on www.BuildingGreen.com.

BuildingGreen, Inc. is publisher of the nation's oldest publication on sustainable design and construction and the leading national directory of green building products. 2005 marks the company's 20^th anniversary. For more information on BuildingGreen and its resources on environmentally responsible design and construction, visit www.BuildingGreen.com, e-mail info@BuildingGreen.com, or call 800-861-0954 (outside the U.S. and Canada, call 802-257-7300). BuildingGreen is an independent, socially responsible, company based in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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Editors: Environmental Building News editors Nadav Malin and Alex Wilson are available for interviews about the High-Performance Buildings database. To arrange an interview, contact Jerelyn Wilson (802-257-7300 ext. 102, Jerelyn@buildinggreen.com).